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When the French army began moving out into the countryside, Mme. Nhu's captors prepared a hasty retreat north. But because her mother-in-law was incapable of making such an arduous trip, Mme. Nhu was granted a safe-conduct pass to a nearby village. With her child and the old woman, Mme. Nhu holed up in a convent in the village until the French forces arrived. Shortly afterward she was reunited with...
Senate and House committees began hearings this week on the President's civil rights bill, the first skirmish an arduous legislative battle that most likely will last through the torrid weeks of mid-summer and into the cool of autumn. At this point the future of the bill remains unclear, with the outcome contingent on several variables: the force and intelligence of the President's leadership; the strength of the Southern senators plotting to filibuster the bill to death; the attitude of the important moderate Southerners, both in and out of Congress; and the policies of the ever more militant...
After twelve years of arduous research and writing, James completed The Principles of Psychology in 1890. The work was at once a grand summation of previous developments and and a portent of the paths psychology would take in the twentieth century. Glimmerings of every major psychological movement of the last 70 years appear in the book. Moreover, a direct line of influence is traceable in many instances...
...After 13 arduous months of negotiations, Britain's hopes of membership in the European Common Market hung in the balance last week. At Common Market headquarters in Brussels, Belgium's Deputy Foreign Minister Henri Fayat said somberly: "The atmosphere is steadily deteriorating, in the conference room as well as outside." In a make-or-break effort to overcome their differences, West Europe's Six suddenly decided to hold intensive, nonstop conferences from Jan. 10 until...
Joxe, who negotiated the Algerian peace, was given the task of overhauling the vast, archaic administrative system, whose authority in France's 90 provincial departments has been steadily eroded by the centralization of government. Former Information Minister Fouchet, was assigned the even more arduous job of modernizing the nation's educational system, which is woefully short of classrooms, teachers and facilities for technical education (only 3% of all French students go on to a university...